| independent | (adjective) free from external control and constraint | - |
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| (adjective) (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence | Synonyms: main |
| (adjective) (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces | Synonyms: autonomous, self-governing, sovereign |
| (adjective) not controlled by a party or interest group | - |
| (noun) a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them | Synonyms: free-lance, free lance, freelance, freelancer, self-employed person |
| (noun) a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics) | Synonyms: fencesitter, mugwump |
| independently | (adverb) on your own; without outside help | - |
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| (adverb) individually or separately | Synonyms: severally |
| indispensability | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without | Synonyms: indispensableness, vitalness |
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| indispensable | (adjective) not to be dispensed with; essential | - |
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| (adjective) absolutely necessary; vitally necessary | Synonyms: essential |
| (adjective) unavoidable | - |
| indispensableness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without | Synonyms: indispensability, vitalness |
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| inexpensive | (adjective) relatively low in price or charging low prices | Synonyms: cheap |
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| inexpensively | (adverb) with little expenditure of money | Synonyms: cheaply |
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| (adverb) in a cheap manner | Synonyms: cheaply, tattily |
| inexpensiveness | (noun) the quality of being affordable | - |
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| interdepend | (verb) be connected | Synonyms: hang together |
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| interdependence | (noun) a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) | Synonyms: interdependency, mutuality |
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| interdependency | (noun) a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) | Synonyms: interdependence, mutuality |
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| interdependent | (adjective) mutually dependent | Synonyms: mutualist, mutually beneficial |
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| interpenetrate | (verb) penetrate mutually or be interlocked | Synonyms: permeate |
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| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, penetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| interpenetration | (noun) mutual penetration; diffusion of each through the other | Synonyms: permeation |
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| (noun) the action of penetrating between or among | - |
| jalapeno | (noun) hot green or red pepper of southwestern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: jalapeno pepper |
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| (noun) plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red | Synonyms: Capsicum annuum longum, cayenne, cayenne pepper, chili pepper, chilli pepper, long pepper |
| leucopenia | (noun) an abnormal lowering of the white blood cell count | Synonyms: leukopenia |
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| leukopenia | (noun) an abnormal lowering of the white blood cell count | Synonyms: leucopenia |
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| lumpen | (adjective) mentally sluggish | Synonyms: lumpish, unthinking |
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| lumpenproletariat | (noun) (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement | - |
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| lycopene | (noun) carotenoid that makes tomatoes red; may lower the risk of prostate cancer | - |
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| lymphocytopenia | (noun) an abnormally small number of lymphocytes in the circulating blood | Synonyms: lymphopenia |
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| lymphopenia | (noun) an abnormally small number of lymphocytes in the circulating blood | Synonyms: lymphocytopenia |
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| micropenis | (noun) an abnormally small penis | Synonyms: microphallus |
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| misshapen | (adjective) so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly | Synonyms: deformed, distorted, ill-shapen, malformed |
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| misshapenness | (noun) an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed | Synonyms: deformity, malformation |
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| misspend | (verb) spend (money or other resources) unwisely | - |
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| (verb) spend time badly or unwisely | - |
| neutropenia | (noun) leukopenia in which the decrease is primarily in number of neutrophils (the chief phagocytic leukocyte) | - |
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| ninepence | (noun) a coin worth nine pennies | - |
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| ninepenny | (adjective) used of nail size; 2 3/4 in or 7 cm long | - |
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| nonopening | (adjective) not open; not opening | - |
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| open | (adjective) ready or willing to receive favorably | Synonyms: receptive |
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| (adjective) affording unobstructed entrance and exit; not shut or closed | Synonyms: unfastened |
| (adjective) affording free passage or access | - |
| (adjective) (set theory) of an interval that contains neither of its endpoints | - |
| (adjective) open and observable; not secret or hidden | Synonyms: overt |
| (adjective) used of mouth or eyes | Synonyms: opened |
| (adjective) ready for business | - |
| (adjective) not having been filled | - |
| (adjective) (of textures) full of small openings or gaps | Synonyms: loose |
| (adjective) openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness | Synonyms: candid, heart-to-heart |
| (adjective) not requiring union membership | - |
| (adjective) open to or in view of all | - |
| (adjective) possibly accepting or permitting | Synonyms: capable, subject |
| (adjective) without undue constriction as from e.g. tenseness or inhibition | - |
| (adjective) having no protecting cover or enclosure | - |
| (adjective) affording free passage or view | Synonyms: clear |
| (adjective) with no protection or shield | Synonyms: exposed |
| (adjective) accessible to all | - |
| (adjective) not sealed or having been unsealed | Synonyms: opened |
| (adjective) not brought to a conclusion; subject to further thought | Synonyms: undecided, undetermined, unresolved |
| (adjective) not defended or capable of being defended | Synonyms: assailable, undefendable, undefended |
| (noun) information that has become public | Synonyms: surface |
| (noun) a tournament in which both professionals and amateurs may play | - |
| (noun) a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water | Synonyms: clear |
| (noun) where the air is unconfined | Synonyms: open air, out-of-doors, outdoors |
| (verb) make available | Synonyms: open up |
| (verb) become available | Synonyms: open up |
| (verb) make the opening move | - |
| (verb) cause to open or to become open | Synonyms: open up |
| (verb) become open | Synonyms: open up |
| (verb) spread out or open from a closed or folded state | Synonyms: spread, spread out, unfold |
| (verb) display the contents of a file or start an application as on a computer | - |
| (verb) afford access to | Synonyms: afford, give |
| (verb) start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning | Synonyms: open up |
| (verb) begin or set in action, of meetings, speeches, recitals, etc. | - |
| (verb) have an opening or passage or outlet | - |
| openbill | (noun) stork with a grooved bill whose upper and lower parts touch only at the base and tip | - |
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| opencast | (adjective) (of mines and mining) worked from the exposed surface | Synonyms: opencut |
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| opencut | (adjective) (of mines and mining) worked from the exposed surface | Synonyms: opencast |
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| opened | (adjective) used of mouth or eyes | Synonyms: open |
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| (adjective) made open or clear | - |
| (adjective) not sealed or having been unsealed | Synonyms: open |
| opener | (noun) a hand tool used for opening sealed containers (bottles or cans) | - |
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| (noun) the first event in a series | - |
| (noun) a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens | Synonyms: undoer, unfastener, untier |
| openhanded | (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal |
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| openhandedness | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, largesse, magnanimity, munificence |
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| openhearted | (adjective) freely communicative; candidly straightforward | - |
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| (adjective) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | Synonyms: benevolent, charitable, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, sympathetic |
| opening | (adjective) first or beginning | - |
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| (noun) a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess | Synonyms: chess opening |
| (noun) the act of opening something | - |
| (noun) becoming open or being made open | - |
| (noun) the first of a series of actions | Synonyms: first step, initiative, opening move |
| (noun) a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made | - |
| (noun) an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship | Synonyms: hatchway, scuttle |
| (noun) an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity | Synonyms: orifice, porta |
| (noun) a possible alternative | Synonyms: possibility, possible action |
| (noun) the initial part of the introduction | - |
| (noun) the first performance (as of a theatrical production) | Synonyms: curtain raising, opening night |
| (noun) a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise | - |
| (noun) an open or empty space in or between things | Synonyms: gap |
| (noun) opportunity especially for employment or promotion | - |
| openly | (adverb) in an open way | - |
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| openmouthed | (adjective) with eyes or mouth open in surprise | Synonyms: goggle-eyed, popeyed |
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| openness | (noun) characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive | Synonyms: nakedness |
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| (noun) willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas) | Synonyms: receptiveness, receptivity |
| (noun) without obstructions to passage or view | - |
| openwork | (noun) ornamental work (such as embroidery or latticework) having a pattern of openings | - |
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| overcompensate | (verb) make excessive corrections for fear of making an error | Synonyms: over-correct |
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| (verb) make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities | Synonyms: compensate, cover |
| overcompensation | (noun) excessive compensation | - |
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| (noun) (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite | - |
| overspend | (verb) spend at a high rate | - |
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| (verb) spend more than available of (a budget) | - |
| pancytopenia | (noun) an abnormal deficiency in all blood cells (red blood cells and white blood cells and platelets); usually associated with bone marrow tumor or with aplastic anemia | - |
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| pen | (noun) female swan | - |
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| (noun) a writing implement with a point from which ink flows | - |
| (noun) an enclosure for confining livestock | - |
| (noun) a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes | Synonyms: penitentiary |
| (noun) a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play | Synonyms: playpen |
| (verb) produce a literary work | Synonyms: compose, indite, write |
| penal | (adjective) of or relating to punishment | - |
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| (adjective) (of an act or offense) subject to punishment by law | Synonyms: punishable |
| (adjective) serving as or designed to impose punishment | - |
| penalisation | (noun) the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty | Synonyms: penalization, penalty, punishment |
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| penalise | (verb) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | Synonyms: penalize, punish |
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| penalization | (noun) the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty | Synonyms: penalisation, penalty, punishment |
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| penalize | (verb) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | Synonyms: penalise, punish |
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| penally | (adverb) in a way intended to punish | Synonyms: punitively, punitorily |
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| penalty | (noun) the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty | Synonyms: penalisation, penalization, punishment |
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| (noun) the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition | - |
| (noun) (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game | - |
| (noun) a payment required for not fulfilling a contract | - |
| penance | (noun) voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing | Synonyms: self-abasement, self-mortification |
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| (noun) a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution | - |
| (noun) remorse for your past conduct | Synonyms: penitence, repentance |
| penchant | (noun) a strong liking | Synonyms: predilection, preference, taste |
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| pencil | (noun) a thin cylindrical pointed writing implement; a rod of marking substance encased in wood | - |
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| (noun) a cosmetic in a long thin stick; designed to be applied to a particular part of the face | - |
| (noun) a figure formed by a set of straight lines or light rays meeting at a point | - |
| (noun) graphite (or a similar substance) used in such a way as to be a medium of communication | - |
| (verb) write, draw, or trace with a pencil | - |
| penciled | (adjective) drawn or written with a pencil | Synonyms: pencilled |
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| pencilled | (adjective) drawn or written with a pencil | Synonyms: penciled |
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| pendant | (adjective) held from above and hanging down | Synonyms: dependent, pendent |
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| (noun) branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling | Synonyms: chandelier, pendent |
| (noun) an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry (necklace or earring) | Synonyms: pendent |
| pendent | (adjective) held from above and hanging down | Synonyms: dependent, pendant |
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| (noun) branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling | Synonyms: chandelier, pendant |
| (noun) an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry (necklace or earring) | Synonyms: pendant |
| pending | (adjective) awaiting conclusion or confirmation | - |
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| pendragon | (noun) the supreme war chief of the ancient Britons | - |
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| pendulous | (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: cernuous, drooping, nodding, weeping |
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| pendulum | (noun) an apparatus consisting of an object mounted so that it swings freely under the influence of gravity | - |
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| peneplain | (noun) a more or less level land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion undisturbed by crustal movements | Synonyms: peneplane |
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| peneplane | (noun) a more or less level land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion undisturbed by crustal movements | Synonyms: peneplain |
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| penetrability | (noun) the quality of being penetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.) | Synonyms: perviousness |
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| penetrable | (adjective) admitting of penetration or passage into or through | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being penetrated | - |
| penetralium | (noun) the innermost parts | - |
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| penetrate | (verb) come to understand | Synonyms: bottom, fathom |
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| (verb) become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions | Synonyms: click, come home, dawn, fall into place, get across, get through, sink in |
| (verb) pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance | Synonyms: perforate |
| (verb) insert the penis into the vagina or anus of | - |
| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| (verb) make one's way deeper into or through | - |
| (verb) enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members | Synonyms: infiltrate |
| penetrating | (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
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| (adjective) tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing | Synonyms: penetrative |
| penetratingly | (adverb) with ability to see into deeply | Synonyms: penetratively |
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| penetration | (noun) an attack that penetrates into enemy territory | Synonyms: incursion |
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| (noun) the act of entering into or through something | - |
| (noun) the act (by a man) of inserting his penis into the vagina of a woman | - |
| (noun) the depth to which something penetrates (especially the depth reached by a projectile that hits a target) | - |
| (noun) the ability to make way into or through something | - |
| (noun) clear or deep perception of a situation | Synonyms: insight |
| penetrative | (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, piercing, sharp |
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| (adjective) tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing | Synonyms: penetrating |
| penetratively | (adverb) with ability to see into deeply | Synonyms: penetratingly |
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| penetrator | (noun) an intruder who passes into or through (often by overcoming resistance) | - |
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| pengo | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in Hungary until it was replaced by the forint in 1946 | - |
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| penguin | (noun) short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers | - |
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| penial | (adjective) of or relating to the penis | Synonyms: penile |
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| penicillamine | (noun) a drug (trade name Cuprimine) used to treat heavy metal poisoning and Wilson's disease and severe arthritis | Synonyms: Cuprimine |
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| penicillin | (noun) any of various antibiotics obtained from Penicillium molds (or produced synthetically) and used in the treatment of various infections and diseases | - |
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| penicillinase | (noun) enzyme produced by certain bacteria that inactivates penicillin and results in resistance to that antibiotic | Synonyms: beta-lactamase |
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| penile | (adjective) of or relating to the penis | Synonyms: penial |
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| peninsula | (noun) a large mass of land projecting into a body of water | - |
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| peninsular | (adjective) of or forming or resembling a peninsula | - |
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| penis | (noun) the male sex organ | Synonyms: member, phallus |
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| penitence | (noun) remorse for your past conduct | Synonyms: penance, repentance |
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| penitent | (adjective) feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds | Synonyms: repentant |
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| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor) | - |
| penitential | (adjective) showing or constituting penance | Synonyms: penitentiary |
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| penitentially | (adverb) showing remorse | Synonyms: penitently, repentantly |
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| penitentiary | (adjective) showing or constituting penance | Synonyms: penitential |
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| (adjective) used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers | - |
| (noun) a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes | Synonyms: pen |
| penitently | (adverb) showing remorse | Synonyms: penitentially, repentantly |
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| penknife | (noun) a small pocketknife; originally used to cut quill pens | - |
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| penlight | (noun) a small flashlight resembling a fountain pen | - |
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| penman | (noun) informal terms for journalists | Synonyms: scribbler, scribe |
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| penmanship | (noun) beautiful handwriting | Synonyms: calligraphy, chirography |
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| pennant | (noun) a long flag; often tapering | Synonyms: pennon, streamer, waft |
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| (noun) a flag longer than it is wide (and often tapering) | - |
| (noun) the award given to the champion | Synonyms: crown |